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Chipotles en adobo —smoked, ripe jalapeño peppers in adobo Peruvian adobo chicken made from dried aji panca (yellow lantern chili, Capsicum chinense). Adobo or adobar (Spanish: marinade, sauce, or seasoning) is the immersion of food in a stock (or sauce) composed variously of paprika, oregano, salt, garlic, and vinegar to preserve and enhance its flavor.
Philippine adobo (from Spanish: adobar: "marinade", "sauce" or "seasoning" / English: / ə ˈ d oʊ b oʊ / Tagalog pronunciation:) is a popular Filipino dish and cooking process in Philippine cuisine.
The word Asia originated from the Ancient Greek word Ἀσία, [10] first attributed to Herodotus (about 440 BCE) in reference to Anatolia or to the Persian Empire, in contrast to Greece and Egypt. It originally was just a name for the east bank of the Aegean Sea , an area known to the Hittites as Assuwa .
The Neolithic founder crops (or primary domesticates) are the eight plant species that were domesticated by early Holocene (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) farming communities in the Fertile Crescent region of southwest Asia, and which formed the basis of systematic agriculture in the Middle East, North Africa, India ...
Countries by avocado production in 2020. This is a list of countries by avocado production from 2016 to 2022, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. [1]
Asia and Europe are considered separate continents for historical reasons; the division between the two goes back to the early Greek geographers. In the modern sense of the term "continent", Eurasia is more readily identifiable as a "continent", and Europe has occasionally been described as a subcontinent of Eurasia.
South Asia has a total area of 5.2 million sq.km (2 million sq.mi), which is 10% of the Asian continent. [30] The population of South Asia is estimated to be 2.04 billion [8] or about one-fourth of the world's population, making it both the most populous and the most densely populated geographical region in the world. [31]
A heavily influential aspect of Asian culture is the food, especially the various traditional ways of Asian cuisine and cooking. [7] Although many Asian cultures often share the traditions of bringing the family or group together to socialize or have celebrations over a meal, the various cultures of Asia each developed their own individual ethnic cultural takes on food through the interaction ...